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" I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous. "

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" It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. "

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" I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum. "

" In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. "

Norman O. Brown

" We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing. "

" It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase. "

" I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India. "

" Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be. "

" I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read. "

" I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know. "

" For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial. "

" Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. "

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" At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous. "

" I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need. "

" I was asked to audition for the second season of 'Stranger Things.' I didn't want that level of exposure. I don't want to be TV famous. "

" It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role. "

" I was famous in our college for calm and impassionate discussion; for one whole summer, I rose at five and went to bed at midnight, that I might have sufficient time for theology and metaphysics. "

" Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being. "

" I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous. "

" I will either be famous or infamous. "

" Even when you look at, like, movies with some of our famous celebrities, they don't really cry and bring out their tears until, like, forced. "

" My buildings are more famous than me. "

" It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy. "

" I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share. "

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" To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers. "

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" I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you. "

" I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous. "

" I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't. "

" The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God. "

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